Engineers Spent the last 4 hours looking for Yttrium

Eera

Eera
Jezzah said:
I've not been actively searching for one thing or another I'm just playing around thinking I'll do a bit of this activity or ill do a bit of that activity. I find lots of stuff BUT it is clear that certain things are incredibly difficult to find at all. I can't spend hours and hours looking for stuff either. Very much a casual player that maybe gets an hour a night to go on the pc and frankly there are other games I'd like to play also.

If there was a pattern to where things can be found it would help. For instance yttrium can be very rarely found on any moon BUY you will always find it in systems that have K class stars on moons within they range 500-1000 ls from the star. What this means is that I can spend some time narrowing the search down before committing large amount of my limited time in the hateful SRV randomly popping rocks.
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Spending hours to search rare materials is normal. What it is not normal, is to have a luck on two to lose this material during the update proceed.
 

ishmair

ishmair
Here is what I found for FSD Injections also for the engineer. About two days of game play split over a few weeks to get enough FSD boost for the formidine rift crossing. I'm finding that Yttrium and Polonium are stupidly rare. I may find one or two every few days. Also I have 36 hours of youtube stream video just for hunting down polonium. Only found 1 unit.

Idea: have the detail surface scanner give percents of material on the surface or what types you may find, as a small hint.


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CHOPP3R

CHOPP3R
Check out the list of barnacles and the materials they yield relating to what's on their planet. Avoid the barnies with the big gun turrets if I were you
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Click the tabs at the top for more details on each barnie on each planet.
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Don't let the shepherd catch you shearing his sheep though.. Someone is probably watching
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bWITzZmYMYqwXqX5NHw02tyCGd7IFcfHpjYGeZL9GHQ/htmlview
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Lots of polonium and Yttrium etc easily available compared to scouring planet surfaces for metallic meteorites!
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Best one for Yttrium at the moment:
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Pleiades Sector JC-U b3-2 2
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vermu

vermu
ishmair said:
Idea: have the detail surface scanner give percents of material on the surface or what types you may find, as a small hint.
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If the surface scanner does not do that now it really should. It would make this material hunting a bit easier cause you wouldn't have to land for nothing.
 

Quester91

Quester91
DragoonKnight said:
Found one piece of it. I need two pieces for just one attempt at improving the FSD drive.
This totally sucks.
Seriously FD, if you are going to force us to hunt down specific elements for engineer upgrades at least make sure that they have a decent chance of spawning. It is no fun to search 4 planets, go to the other side of the bubble, and still not find it in sufficient quantities.

Of course after going through all this trouble I still have FD's RNG lottery to look forward to. The result from the engineer can range anywhere from an 11% improvement to a 35% improvement. Would it have killed someone to just make the result of the engineer upgrade a fixed 25% improvement?
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Alrai system, the only landable planet near the red giant is FILLED with yttrium. There, now stop whining about wasting your time and just to a quick research online before hopping into the SRV.
 
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DragoonKnight

DragoonKnight
Thanks all for the suggestions on where to look, but I found out the hard way it is not that easy. At least for me.
I visited Eta Draconis 7, Eta Draconis 1, HR 5104 A1 (found 2 polonium here), and HR 5104 BC2E.
I found just one piece of yttrium on that last one and was forced to leave when my SRV was running low on fuel. Thats when I made this topic. Thankfully an outpost is just one jump away.

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Quester91 said:
Alrai system, the only landable planet near the red giant is FILLED with yttrium. There, now stop whining about wasting your time and just to a quick research online before hopping into the SRV.
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I did the research. I scoured the forums and it still did not help much.
Here, this is what I read before I set off on my journey
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=236381
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LgMaX9n6Yp8DQKq-u-eF1HH2xQ-_aUgSfSJna6mTuLs/edit#gid=0
 

DragoonKnight

DragoonKnight
Funny said:
The distribution of elements is indeed random, but it's also governed by set of rules. And of all of them, the 3-2-1 rule is probably the most important of the lot: every planet has a set of 3 commons, 2 rares and 1 very rare material (based on the old system). It's possible to set up entire spreadsheets with planets you have prospected so you can find them later. Some planets have high spawn rates, others very low ones; it's up to you to find out which is which. Admittedly, it's not the most fun job in the world, but it gets results. I would love for the DSS to show me the materials distribution to save me the 30-60 minutes I need to spend on each planet to fully prospect it. I've just found two planets with Yttrium when I wasn't even planning to search the planets when I jumped in, so it's not impossible to do, it just takes a VERY long time.

Edit: I can recommend everyone to head over here for more information: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=228645
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My problem is that so few of the metallica meteorites actually contain yttrium.
 

xondk

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DragoonKnight said:
Found one piece of it. I need two pieces for just one attempt at improving the FSD drive.
This totally sucks.
Seriously FD, if you are going to force us to hunt down specific elements for engineer upgrades at least make sure that they have a decent chance of spawning. It is no fun to search 4 planets, go to the other side of the bubble, and still not find it in sufficient quantities.

Of course after going through all this trouble I still have FD's RNG lottery to look forward to. The result from the engineer can range anywhere from an 11% improvement to a 35% improvement. Would it have killed someone to just make the result of the engineer upgrade a fixed 25% improvement?
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Very low gravity planets is where you want to look, as in below 0.1g
 

Eymerich

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Quester91 said:
Alrai system, the only landable planet near the red giant is FILLED with yttrium. There, now stop whining about wasting your time and just to a quick research online before hopping into the SRV.
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Thanks I'll have a check now!ù

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Over 40 min on that planet.

No yttrum over there...
 
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CHOPP3R

CHOPP3R
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Tiviss Sar

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Quester91 said:
Alrai system, the only landable planet near the red giant is FILLED with yttrium. There, now stop whining about wasting your time and just to a quick research online before hopping into the SRV.
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Are there any specific places to look in, while on the surface? Like those red scars? Or maybe craters? Thanks for the info, cmdr. o7
 

xondk

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CHOPP3R said:
There are many, many, many planets with below 0.1g that have no Yttrium. There are also many, many, many planets above 0.1g that have Yttrium.

Check for examples. http://ayashi.net/elite/edh-planetmats.html

If you don't fancy driving round in circles hit barnacles for the goodies and farm them much quicker. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=260165&p=4022272&viewfull=1#post4022272
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Composition naturally also has something to do with it yes, but what you link is not something I recognize.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=212600
is much more in line with what I've experienced in terms of materials. Note the planet types are also noted down here.
 

Rigmor

Rigmor
I mentined this in another post, FD give us a Planetary Material Scanner. Yes we will have to land to grind it, but we know it's there...somewhere.

BTW ETA Draconis 4 has polonium, and arsenic
 

CHOPP3R

CHOPP3R
xondk said:
Composition naturally also has something to do with it yes, but what you link is not something I recognize.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=212600
is much more in line with what I've experienced in terms of materials. Note the planet types are also noted down here.
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Yep... Loads of planets over 0.1G with Yttrium and loads with gravity less than 0.1G without Yttrium on there too. It's not the gravity that decides what's on there. It certainly isn't an indicator that you're likely to find Yttrium just because you're on a low G world.
 

dangerousbeans

dangerousbeans
got one in my storage, but no idea where from, must of been a random pickup from countless srv fun the last few months. Na not helpful, i'll shut up now :)
 
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